AMLO

A facinating interview on the CBS 60 Minutes program Sunday with MX President Lopez last evening. What caught my interest was the question of drug smuggling into the US from MX. His short response was American family values being so much less than Mexicanos. Thus our appetite for hard core dope, more so than Mexcicans, was directed towards family discipline. Lack of two parents. Welfare system. etc. Spot on sir!

I don't believe Presidente López Obrador criticized the USA's welfare system, just the USA's loss of family values and principles.

While Mexico certainly has its share of deadbeat dads and broken homes, families remain a much more important bedrock of society here. But young people need discipline and orientation as well as the guidance and love of their family. Young people here generally aren't pushed out of their homes, and the elderly are generally not expected to live in retirement homes or communities. A very different mindset than the USA and the Anglo culture.